On This Day — March 5
4425 noted people were born and 2061 died on March 5 in our archive, including Charles Wyville Thomson, Henriette Walter and Aleksei Nikolaevich Bakh.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on March 5
Charles Wyville Thomson
1830 – 1882
Henriette Walter
b. 1929
Aleksei Nikolaevich Bakh
1857 – 1946
Alicia Bárcena Ibarra
b. 1952
Barry G. Clark
b. 1938
Bernard Arnault
b. 1949
Charles Patrick Fitzgerald
1902 – 1992
Don L. Anderson
1933 – 2014
Edouard Van Beneden
1846 – 1910
Evgeny Paton
1870 – 1953
Gerardus Mercator
1512 – 1594
Gleb Pavlovsky
1951 – 2023
He Zehui
1914 – 2011
Helge Seip
1919 – 2004
Ilyas Bechelov
b. 1951
J. Hillis Miller
1928 – 2021
James Tobin
1918 – 2002
Jean Jouzel
b. 1947
Jean-Simon Berthélemy
1743 – 1811
John Hugh Seiradhakis
1948 – 2020
Kiril Bratanov
1911 – 1986
Laurent Schwartz
1915 – 2002
Luigi Spaventa
1934 – 2013
Margaret Levi
b. 1947
Michael von Faulhaber
1869 – 1952
Michel Devoret
b. 1953
Pat Gelsinger
b. 1961
Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth
b. 1951
Prosper Poullet
1868 – 1937
Ramón Otero Pedrayo
1888 – 1976
Samuel Davenport
1818 – 1906
Walter Kasper
b. 1933
Werner Fasslabend
b. 1944
William Beveridge
1879 – 1963
Yevgeny Pavlovsky
1884 – 1965
Yoshua Bengio
b. 1964
Zhou Enlai
1898 – 1976
Élisabeth Badinter
b. 1944
Alejandro Guillier
b. 1953
Aleksandar Vučić
b. 1970
Alex Zelinsky
b. 1960
Alexey Fedorov-Davydov
1900 – 1969
Alfred Mayer
1936 – 2022
Alphonse Hasselmans
1845 – 1912
Andres Larka
1879 – 1943
Angelo Genocchi
1817 – 1889
Antje Boetius
b. 1967
António Maria de Bettencourt Rodrigues
1854 – 1933
Ashton Lever
1729 – 1788
Austen Henry Layard
1817 – 1894
Baadur Tsuladze
1935 – 2018
Bao Zheng
999 – 1062
Barbara Piwnik
b. 1955
Barry Tuckwell
1931 – 2020
Beriah Botfield
1807 – 1863
Bernd Siebert
b. 1964
Biju Patnaik
1916 – 1997
Brady Brim-DeForest
b. 1984
Brian Garner Wybourne
1935 – 2003
Brigitte Bailer-Galanda
b. 1952
C. E. Wynn-Williams
1903 – 1979
Canaan Banana
1936 – 2003
Carl Chang
b. 1952
Casimir Gzowski
1813 – 1898
Catherine Gfeller
b. 1966
Chad Campbell
b. 1973
Chalkdust
b. 1941
Charbel Dagher
b. 1950
Curtis Scaparrotti
b. 1956
Daniel Kahneman
1934 – 2024
Daniel R. Fitzpatrick
1891 – 1969
Dave Min
b. 1976
David A. Freedman
1938 – 2008
David Donoho
b. 1957
David Gelernter
b. 1955
David Usupashvili
b. 1968
Edith Heard
b. 1965
Edward Cornwallis
1713 – 1776
Etienne de Harven
1928 – 2019
Ewald Weibel
1929 – 2019
Felipe González
b. 1942
Franz Josef Jung
b. 1949
Friedrich Bohl
b. 1945
Félix de Blochausen
1834 – 1915
Georgios Papastamkos
b. 1955
Gordon Bajnai
b. 1968
Gregory Coates
b. 1961
Halina Harelava
b. 1951
Hannu Karpo
1942 – 2025
Hans Blokland
b. 1943
Harry Lawson
1875 – 1952
Hayk Chobanyan
b. 1973
Heinrich Martin Weber
1842 – 1913
Henry Marsh
b. 1950
Hovhannes Hovhannisyan
b. 1980
Hugh MacDonell
1832 – 1904
Isaac Israel Hayes
1832 – 1881
István Konkoly
1930 – 2017
Jack Marshall
1912 – 1988
Jacob Bell
1810 – 1859
Jacques Babinet
1794 – 1872
James Stansfeld
1820 – 1898
Jan Prüffer
1890 – 1959
Jan Ruml
b. 1953
Janusz Sanocki
1954 – 2020
Janusz Symonides
1938 – 2020
Jari Jolkkonen
b. 1970
Jean-Paul Roussillon
1931 – 2009
Jiang Qing
1914 – 1991
Johan Gunder Adler
1784 – 1852
John Coke
1563 – 1644
John Spicer
1899 – 1978
Jorge Ortiga
b. 1944
João Lourenço
b. 1954
Jože Mencinger
1941 – 2022
Julian Przyboś
1901 – 1970
Julien Dray
b. 1955
Juwono Sudarsono
1942 – 2026
Jürgen Hennig
b. 1951
Karl Eugen Guthe
1866 – 1915
Karl Rahner
1904 – 1984
Katarina Frostenson
b. 1953
Kenneth P. Moritsugu
b. 1945
Kert Kingo
b. 1968
Khalid Naciri
1946 – 2023
Konstanty Andrzej Kulka
b. 1947
Kristen Iversen
b. 1958
Kōichi Shiozawa
1883 – 1943
Lambert van Nistelrooij
b. 1953
Lars Roar Langslet
1936 – 2016
Leslie Marmon Silko
b. 1948
Letizia Battaglia
1935 – 2022
Levering Smith
1910 – 1993
Lisa Daugaard
b. 1966
Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
1867 – 1952
Louise Pearce
1885 – 1959
Luis Valencia Rodríguez
1926 – 2022
Lynn Margulis
1938 – 2011
M. Saif Islam
b. 1970
Marc Henneaux
b. 1955
Marcos Jiménez de la Espada
1831 – 1898
Marek Woźniak
b. 1960
Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat
1912 – 1980
Mario Catania
b. 1952
Marius Barbeau
1883 – 1969
Mary Rose Oakar
1940 – 2025
Matsuoka Hisashi
1862 – 1944
Matsuzo Nagai
1877 – 1957
Matvey Genrikhovich Manizer
1891 – 1966
Menahem Stern
1925 – 1989
Michael Sandel
b. 1953
Mike Resnick
1942 – 2020
Momofuku Ando
1910 – 2007
Nikolai Sukhoi
b. 1941
Nnenna Nwakanma
b. 1975
Ola Didrik Saugstad
b. 1947
Olav Heggstad
1877 – 1954
Olusegun Obasanjo
b. 1937
Ombretta Fumagalli Carulli
1944 – 2021
Otto Haupt
1887 – 1988
Pargat Singh
b. 1965
Patriarch Iustin of Romania
1910 – 1986
Patrick Cockburn
b. 1950
Paul Sand
b. 1935
Paul Vergès
1925 – 2016
Peter Van Rompuy
b. 1980
Peter Weibel
1944 – 2023
Philip K. Chapman
1935 – 2021
Philip Perlman
1890 – 1960
Pierre Péan
1938 – 2019
Rajeev Alur
b. 1966
Rajni Kumar
1923 – 2022
Raymond P. Shafer
1917 – 2006
René Obermann
b. 1963
Roderick Cox
1911 – 2000
Roman Kopin
b. 1974
Samuel Atkins Eliot
1798 – 1862
Silvia Bovenschen
1946 – 2017
Smadar Lavie
b. 1955
Stanisław Iwanicki
b. 1951
Subroto Mukerjee
1911 – 1960
Sutan Sjahrir
1909 – 1966
Tadeusz Manteuffel
1902 – 1970
Taher Masri
b. 1942
Theresa Villiers
b. 1968
Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr.
1873 – 1912
Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote
1876 – 1947
Théodore Labarre
1805 – 1870
Tom Flanagan
b. 1944
Ueki Imaoka
b. 1988
Valery Korzun
b. 1953
Vazgen Sargsyan
1959 – 1999
Venko Markovski
1915 – 1988
Vera Pless
1931 – 2020
Victor Segoffin
1867 – 1925
Víktor Tykhonov
1949 – 2020
William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany
1905 – 1985
William Frederick Durand
1859 – 1958
William Lethbridge
1825 – 1901
William Oughtred
1574 – 1660
… and 4,225 more
Died on March 5
Johan Jensen
1859 – 1925
Pierre-Simon Laplace
1749 – 1827
Alessandro Volta
1745 – 1827
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
1899 – 1999
Andrey A. Fedorov
1908 – 1987
Antonio Martino
1942 – 2022
Arrigo Solmi
1873 – 1944
Bernard Lafayette
1940 – 2026
Bobby Cummines
1951 – 2026
Claude-Louis Mathieu
1783 – 1875
Dawn Clark Netsch
1926 – 2013
Edward Egan
1932 – 2015
Emma Lucy Braun
1889 – 1971
Ernst Cohen
1869 – 1944
Franz Anton Mesmer
1734 – 1815
Gaston Paris
1839 – 1903
Hippolyte Taine
1828 – 1893
Jo Gayle Howard
1951 – 2011
John T. Cacioppo
1951 – 2018
Joseph Stalin
1878 – 1953
Julian Coolidge
1873 – 1954
Leonard Horner
1785 – 1864
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
1929 – 2016
Patrick Dupond
1959 – 2021
Raymond Tomlinson
1941 – 2016
Richard Schöne
1840 – 1922
Roma Mitchell
1913 – 2000
Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet
1810 – 1895
Tony Hoare
1934 – 2026
Trevor Baylis
1937 – 2018
Abdullah Rimawi
1920 – 1980
Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid
1872 – 1963
Alberto Granado
1922 – 2011
Alberto Ronchey
1926 – 2010
Alejandro Sieveking
1934 – 2020
Alexander Macdonald
1918 – 2014
Alexander Stuart Murray
1841 – 1904
Alfredo Casella
1883 – 1947
Antanas Merkys
1887 – 1955
Austen Fox Riggs
1876 – 1940
Cai Yuanpei
1868 – 1940
Charles Tart
1937 – 2025
Charles-Philippe Place
1814 – 1893
Chen Cheng
1897 – 1965
Curtis P. Iaukea
1855 – 1940
Dan Takuma
1858 – 1932
Daniel Abraham Yanofsky
1925 – 2000
David Sheppard
1929 – 2005
Derek Bickerton
1926 – 2018
Dieter Pfaff
1947 – 2013
Edmond Jurien de La Gravière
1812 – 1892
Eli Shamir
1934 – 2026
Emilio Lussu
1890 – 1975
Ernest von Koerber
1850 – 1919
Ernst Sagebiel
1892 – 1970
Eugène-Anatole Demarçay
1852 – 1903
Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull
1655 – 1726
Ferdinand Werner
1876 – 1961
Francisco J. Ayala
1934 – 2023
Franz Mertens
1840 – 1927
George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough
1766 – 1840
Georges Vanier
1888 – 1967
Harold S. Shapiro
1928 – 2021
Hayden White
1928 – 2018
Henry William Edmund Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne
1872 – 1936
Hisao Tanabe
1883 – 1984
Howard Cannon
1912 – 2002
Hugo Chávez
1954 – 2013
Ivan Lyubeznov
1909 – 1988
Jan Dobraczyński
1910 – 1994
Jean Grenier
1898 – 1971
Jeanette Fitzsimons
1945 – 2020
Jitsuo Inagaki
1928 – 2009
Joannes Antonides van der Linden
1609 – 1664
John Belushi
1949 – 1982
John Conolly
1794 – 1866
John Leland Atwood
1904 – 1999
John Mount Batten
1843 – 1916
Jonathan Jackson
1743 – 1810
Josef Redtenbacher
1810 – 1870
Joseph Weizenbaum
1923 – 2008
Leland John Haworth
1904 – 1979
Lucien De Roeck
1915 – 2002
Luis Villoro
1922 – 2014
Manuel de Arriaga
1840 – 1917
Mary Sophie Young
1872 – 1919
Matti Klinge
1936 – 2023
Mike O'Callaghan
1929 – 2004
Moses Gaster
1856 – 1939
Nadezhda Shaydenko
1952 – 2024
Paul Sabatier
1858 – 1928
Pedro Pacheco de Villena
1488 – 1560
Peter Adolf Thiessen
1899 – 1990
Pyotr Anokhin
1898 – 1974
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
1892 – 1953
Richard Allen
1929 – 2019
Robert Assaraf
1936 – 2018
Rochus von Liliencron
1820 – 1912
Sandra Harding
1935 – 2025
Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha
1863 – 1928
Senji Yamamoto
1889 – 1929
Sir George Couper, 2nd Baronet
1824 – 1908
Stanisław Jankowski
1911 – 2002
Sylvester Turner
1954 – 2025
Takekai Shirane
1883 – 1957
Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr.
1910 – 2009
Tiit Käbin
1937 – 2011
Toivo Wiherheimo
1898 – 1970
Torolv Kandahl
1899 – 1982
Uladzimir Karyzna
1938 – 2026
Uri Lubrani
1926 – 2018
Walter Gresham Andrews
1889 – 1949
Wilhelm Hoegner
1887 – 1980
William Churchill deMille
1878 – 1955
William Forbes Adams
1833 – 1920
William Phillips
1914 – 1975
Ailsa McKay
1963 – 2014
Alan Soble
1947 – 2025
Alexander von Volborth
1800 – 1876
Alexis de Castillon
1838 – 1873
Alfred von Waldersee
1832 – 1904
Allan Jay
1931 – 2023
Allen Steckle
1872 – 1938
Alphonse Sormany
1880 – 1943
Alter Tsypkin
1891 – 1985
Alun Lewis
1915 – 1944
Ambrose Ranney
1821 – 1899
Amos K. Hadley
1812 – 1901
Anthony C. Beilenson
1932 – 2017
Antoni Asunción Hernández
1951 – 2016
António Lobo Antunes
1942 – 2026
António-Pedro Vasconcelos
1939 – 2024
Arcadie Ciupercovici
1823 – 1902
Armand Lavergne
1880 – 1935
Arthur Dudley Dobson
1841 – 1934
Auguste Guenepin
1780 – 1842
Azwar Anas
1931 – 2023
Bhagvat Singh
1865 – 1944
Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana
1852 – 1901
Bonifacio Ondó Edu
1922 – 1969
Carl Jaenisch
1813 – 1872
Carl M. Weideman
1898 – 1972
Carleton Putnam
1901 – 1998
Carlo Tognoli
1938 – 2021
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy
1919 – 2004
Cavit Erdel
1884 – 1933
Charles Grant Long
1869 – 1943
Charles M. Wetherill
1825 – 1871
Charles Statham
1875 – 1946
Charles Stuart
1864 – 1926
Charlotte Blindheim
1917 – 2005
Claire Winlow-Vostrovsky
1871 – 1963
Clarence F. Stephens
1917 – 2018
Clark B. Cochrane
1815 – 1867
Clas Alströmer
1736 – 1794
Claude Liardet
1881 – 1966
Claus-Wilhelm Canaris
1937 – 2021
Clifford P. Case
1904 – 1982
Coos Cremers
1806 – 1882
Cosimo Ridolfi
1794 – 1865
Donald Woods
1906 – 1998
Douglas Henry
1926 – 2017
Edgar Lee Masters
1868 – 1950
Edgar S. Gorrell
1891 – 1945
Edward R. Murphy
1937 – 2026
Edward Wittenoom
1854 – 1936
Elizabeth Lawrie Smellie
1884 – 1968
Enrico Bartoletti
1916 – 1976
Eppa Hunton Jr.
1855 – 1932
Erik Marks von Würtemberg
1861 – 1937
Ernst von Harnack
1888 – 1945
Eugen Bormann
1842 – 1917
Eugène Viala
1859 – 1913
F. W. Grosheide
1881 – 1972
Fiora Contino
1925 – 2017
Francesco Paolo Michetti
1851 – 1929
Francis Dodd
1899 – 1973
Frank J. Kelley
1924 – 2021
Frank T. Griswold
1937 – 2023
François-Henry Laperrine
1860 – 1920
Frederic Lang
1852 – 1937
Frederic T. Greenhalge
1842 – 1896
Friedrich Blass
1843 – 1907
Friedrich Staphylus
1512 – 1564
Gabriel Schanche Kielland
1760 – 1821
Gastone Mojaisky Perrelli
1914 – 2008
George Alan Vasey
1895 – 1945
George Burrow Gregory
1813 – 1893
George Francis Robert Henderson
1854 – 1903
George L. Harrison
1887 – 1958
George Wadsworth
1893 – 1958
George Z. Medalie
1883 – 1946
Gloria Carter Spann
1926 – 1990
Guido Panciroli
1523 – 1599
Gustaf Oskar Andersson Malme
1864 – 1937
Guy Orcutt
1917 – 2006
H. P. M. Beames
1875 – 1948
Harold Hilton
1869 – 1942
Harry Choate Foster
1871 – 1917
Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy
1890 – 1965
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